Cessna down in kenya.
 

Cessna down in kenya,any info?

The only info they had at the late night news yesterday is that a Kenyan registered 206 went down on Mount Kilimanjaro (Tanzania). Apparently 4 casualties, the Kenyan pilot is believed to have survived.

Yes, from the news all the four italian passengers passed away sadly.

Pilot is in Intensive care .Let's hope he makes it.

Do you know mark's aircraft??

5Y-AOO , cessna 206

Press report
 

Four tourists die in Kilimanjaro plane crash
Dar Es Salaam - An aircraft crash on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania has claimed the lives of four tourists and left the pilot seriously injured.

The Kenyan-registered plane was flying over Africa's highest peak, Kilimanjaro regional police commander Lucas Ngh'oboko said.

"We have yet to determine the nationalities of the dead, but they were whites and two of them were women.

"The aircraft has Kenyan registration numbers and so far we don't know what it was doing in the area."

Rescuers and wardens from the Kilimanjaro National Park Authority collected remains from the accident scene and took the injured pilot to a hospital in nearby Moshi.
Ngh'oboko said the six-seater Cessna 206 crashed near Kilimanjaro's Mawenzi peak, 4 330 metres above sea level. At 5 963 metres, Kilimanjaro is Africa's highest mountain.

Police said Tanzanian civil aviation detectives were probing the cause of the accident and trying to establish the identities of the victims.

In June 2006, three American mountain climbers died when they were struck by a cascade of falling rocks and boulders dislodged by strong wind on Kilimanjaro.

The spectacular mountain, which is near Tanzania's border with Kenya, attracts thousands of tourists a year.

Scientists have long warned that global warming has degraded the snow and glaciers on the mountain, immortalised in Ernest Hemingway's 1938 short story The Snows of Kilimanjaro and later by a Hollywood film version of the title. - Sapa-AFP

News - Africa: Four tourists die in Kilimanjaro plane crash

Kilimanjaro crash
 

Some of the news reports I've seen are horribly inaccurate! The aircraft was 5Y-AOO owned and operated by Campi Ya Kanzi - a lodge in the Chyulu Hills. The pilot is Martin Lunani and yes, he is the lucky survivor - fairly accurate reports are that he has a broken hip and jaw so serious but not life threatening at this stage.

Passengers were all Italian tourists taking a sight seeing flight around Kilimanjaro. Two women, two men - all dead (with burns) at the crash site at approximately according to one report 14,000' and according to another report between 8000-9000'.

Rescuers were the Kili park rangers, who brought the pilot down to a Moshi hospital. Reports are that it was CFIT. :sad:

Why oh why does this keep on happening?? Thirty years ago it might have been forgiveable given the lack of accurate instrumentation but I don't understand why with GPS etc it still happens in 21st Century?!

My thoughts and condolences to all involved.

Poor souls. My heart goes out to them and a speedy recovery to the pilot. Is there any mention on what might have caused the crash? If not lets not jump the gun here. No modern equipment prevents accidents caused by structural/engine failure and the likes. It stings like a bee any time there's an accident that claims lives. Safe flying everyone.

GPS isn't going to save you from a down draft. And a normally aspirated 206 high up on the mountains with five on board. We had a crash here a few years ago, in the mountains, five onboard. Still not conclusive what happened but at least this time there is a witness.

Because with GPS you always know where you are, right? You're bullet proof so do anything you like. The GPS will always get you out of trouble......

Unfortunately I agree with you. GPS makes us all Superpilots, able to fly through mountains, skim blindly through clouds, and leap gravity in a single bound. What it doesn't do is bring four passengers back to life....

Its definitely not clear at this point whether weather/IMC was the major factor or whether performance of a 206 at 14,000' was the major contributor. Early unconfirmed reports are that the clouds were broken about 7,500 to 11,500 around the mountain at the time of the crash. Its certainly a deceptive mountain to fly close to - you think you're flying level across the Saddle areas but the ground's outclimbing you at 1000fpm in some places. And even in clear skies there are substantial down and updrafts around the area.

Rumours are that the pilot is due to be discharged from hospital with a broken hip and jaw, but he has little memory of the incident at this stage. Investigators and rescuers are doing what they can to find out what happened and bring the bodies back to their relatives.

Its so very, very sad. What an awful thing to have happened. There, but for the grace of God go us all......?